Example sentences of "about half the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this was ‘ own label ’ merchandise of course , but occasionally one would come across a familiar branded item , at about half the price of those at home . |
| 2 | The Republicans put up candidates in about half the constituencies and their overall share of the vote stayed low at 2.3 per cent . |
| 3 | About half the electorate were party supporters in 1986 , and half uncommitted , by this definition . |
| 4 | Bolshevik sources reveal that about half the population of the guberniia did not have enough to eat by then , and the position was no better by spring of 1922 . |
| 5 | The ending of the former child allowances and their replacement with tax-free child benefits in 1975 meant an increase in the problem of dependency , with only about half the 750,000 one-parent families in 1976 , for instance , able to rely on their income as means of support . |
| 6 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 7 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 8 | If it were due to some ‘ memory ’ of our life-style then we would predict that about half the population would show a value less than 24 hours and the free-running periods of individuals would be distributed fairly symmetrically about an average value of 24 hours . |
| 9 | About half the deputies who defied Gen Aoun 's attempts to block the presidential election are Christians like Mr Muawad . |
| 10 | ‘ By the end of the five years , however , passengers should be paying for all operating costs and providing about half the investment expenditure . ’ |
| 11 | Industry and agriculture would pay about half the bill , the government the other half . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 13 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 14 | About half the loss resulted from operations , half from restructuring . |
| 15 | About half the houses were now finished , the turfs laid , the flower beds cut , looking like fresh graves — all in the front , of course . |
| 16 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 17 | Normally about half the crop is traded early . |
| 18 | Decrease the portion of dessert to about half the usual amount . |
| 19 | Use about half the usual quantity of butter or hard margarine on vegetables . |
| 20 | About half the audience had gone by the interval and by the end he was virtually alone . |
| 21 | But last year housebuilding bottomed out at about half the level of 1988 and analysts predict a slow upturn in 1992 . |
| 22 | Activity in 1994 may be only about half the peak level of 1990 . ’ |
| 23 | The main targets are damson-hop aphids , related to the common greenfly and about half the size of a grain of rice , which have developed immunity to pesticides . |
| 24 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 25 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 26 | About half the farmers interviewed would consider changing to another enterprise if farm incomes were to drop and would require training to provide the new competence . |
| 27 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 28 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 29 | In El Salvador , about half the active agricultural population are employed for less than six months of the year ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 30 | His computer was totally compatible with the machines of the brand leader IBM , but with the added advantage of being about half the price and running at a much faster speed . |